SmallHD User Guide

Display

Settings that affect the output of the display can be found here such as backlight adjustment & auto calibration.

Individual options dependent on monitor model.

Backlight Settings

Set up and fine-tune the brightness of the LED backlight.

STANDARD RANGE

This option enables adjustment of the backlight up to its maximum limit within the specified color space.

STUDIO BRIGHTNESS

If you are in a studio or other low-light environment, use this option to limit the backlight to 100 nits which enables a fine-tune adjustment within that range.

BACKLIGHT

Adjusts the actual output of the backlight or in the case of OLED adjusts the maximum pixel brightness.

Calibration Settings

Your monitor ships calibrated from the factory with selectable calibration LUTs depending on how you may want to display your image, for example DCI color space for cinema projection or Rec. 2020 for HDR production. Auto-calibration can be performed here to account for long-term color drift by using a compatible calibration puck. This will automatically set the gamma and white point to ensure your monitor is perfectly displaying its intended color space.

Enable Calibration LUT

Once auto-calibration has taken place, toggle this for a before/after comparison of the results.

Calibration LUT

If you already have a saved calibration LUT you wish to use, you can browse your SD card and apply it here. Otherwise this will display stats related to your auto-calibration.

Targeted Color Space:

(not editable) Lists the color space that your monitor is currently displaying post-calibration.

Targeted White Point:

(not editable) Lists the white point that your monitor is currently displaying post-calibration.

Reset Calibration LUT

Reverts to the factory calibration LUT that is shipped with the monitor.

Run Auto-Calibration

Automatically sets the white point and gamma of your monitor by using a compatible color calibration probe.

Appearance Settings

This menu allows you to directly alter the display's RGB output post-calibration if adjustments need to be made to match a lesser monitor on set.

This menu directly affects (and can therefore negate) the extensive calibration capability of the monitor - modify at your own risk.

Gamma Shift

Adjusts the gamma curve being applied to the final output.

Sharpness

Adjusts the intensity of edge detection. See Peaking for a more user-friendly version of this.

Contrast, Brightness, Saturation (Con,Brt,Sat)

Standard Contrast, Brightness and Saturation controls.

Red, Green, Blue Gain (RGB Gain)

Adjusts the Gain or Contrast of the Red, Green and Blue channels individually.